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JEFFERSON & HIS TIME - 6vols. Complete
$400.00
SOURCE RECORDS OF THE GREAT WAR - Beautiful 1st Eds. - 1923
$200.00
DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL PEPYS - 1884, 10Vols. Complete, #75 of 150.
$500.00
THE WORKS OF JOHN FISKE - 1902 Deluxe Edition - 24vols Complete Pages Uncut
$500.00
Bruce, VIRGINIA REBIRTH OF THE OLD DOMINION - 1929 1st thus, 5vols. Complete
$150.00
Hemingway, Ernest. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS - 1st /1st, All Points Present
$950.00
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Basbanes, A GENTLE MADNESS - 1995 1st/1st Inscribed by author. As New.
$200.00
Ruskin, John, THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN - [1902] 12 vols. Complete
$300.00
DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL PEPYS - 1884, 10Vols. Complete, #75 of 150.
$500.00
[Italy] LETTERS FROM THE NORTH OF ITALY - 2vols Beautifully Rebound 1819 1st ed.
$300.00
[Leather] Scott, THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH -1827
$250.00
[England] Macaulay THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND - 5 vols.
$250.00
[Masonic Lodge] Mackey, THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY, Full Set, Beautiful!
$900.00
Ernest Hemingway, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA - 1952 1st ed. / 1st Printing
$1,200.00
SOURCE RECORDS OF THE GREAT WAR - Beautiful 1st Eds. - 1923
$200.00
[Civil War] SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN REVIEW - 5 Vols. Bound Together - 1858-1861
$200.00
Godey, Louis A. ed., GODEY’S LADY’S BOOK AND MAGAZINE - 1866 All 12 Issues
$250.00
[Prince Madoc] Bowen, AMERICA DISCOVERED BY THE WELSH 1876 1st ed. Very Rare
$200.00
Three 1st Appearances of Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn - CENTURY MAGAZINE - 1885
$300.00
D’Este, Carlo, PATTON A GENIUS FOR WAR - 1994 1st/1st
$30.00
[Civil War+] Schofield, Lt. General, FORTY-SIX YEARS IN THE ARMY - 1897 1st ed.
$200.00
N.A., THE YORKTOWN BOOK, 1781-1931 - 1932 1st, #809 of 2000
$50.00
[Fine Bindings] N.a., [Smedley, Edward], SKETCHES OF VENETIAN HISTORY - 1846 3rd
$200.00
Hearne, Thomas, ed., A COLLECTION OF CURIOUS DISCOURSES -1775
$300.00
Singer, Charles, ed., A HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY - 1954 1sts, 5vols Complete
$250.00
THEOCRITUS, BION & MOSCHUS - 1st Limited ed. 2Vols – 1922
$600.00
[Civil War] Pollard, THE LOST CAUSE - 1867 2nd Edition - Contemporary Viewpoint
$199.00
Couper, ONE HUNDRED YEARS AT V.M.I. - 1939 1st ed.
$100.00
THE IMPENDING CRISIS OF THE SOUTH - 1857 1st/1st - Very Rare - and Quite Deadly
$500.00
[Confederate] Longstreet, FROM MANASSAS TO APPOMATTOX - 1st ed. Gorgeous
$750.00
[Civil War] Freeman, Douglass Southall, R. E. LEE A BIOGRAPHY. 1934 1st Eds.
$750.00
[Fine Bindings] 2vols. SKETCHES IN ITALY and NEW ITALIAN SKETCHES - 1883, 1884.
$250.00
THE WORKS OF JOHN FISKE - 1902 Deluxe Edition - 24vols Complete Pages Uncut
$500.00
1857 Leather - Hood, Thomas, THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS HOOD
$50.00
[Americana] THE HISTORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HELVETIC UNION -
$100.00
[Feminism] , THE WORKS OF LADY MONTAGU - Beautiful, 3vols., 2nd ed., 1837.
$400.00
STORIES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS - 1st American ed., Illus. by Edmund Dulac
$50.00
Rawlings, THE YEARLING - 1938 1st ed. 1st Printing - 1939 Pulitzer Prize Winner.
$300.00
[Scotland] SKETCHES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF MORAY - 1839 1st ed.
$100.00
HISTORY OF THE RISE OF THE HUGUENOTS OF FRANCE - 1879 1st ed.
$100.00
Wayland, John W., VIRGINIA VALLEY RECORDS -1985 Reprint
$50.00
Kessel, Joseph, THE HORSEMEN - 1968 stated 1st American ed., 1st printing.
$20.00
[Fine Bindings] Bartlett's THE SCENERY AND ANTIQUITIES OF IRELAND - 1842 1st Ed.
$999.00
Hemingway, Ernest. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS - 1st /1st, All Points Present
$950.00
JEFFERSON & HIS TIME - 6vols. Complete
$400.00
Swinton, CAMPAIGNS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC - 1866 1st ed.
$250.00
[Americana] MEMORIAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AT PHILADELPHIA 1876 1st
$60.00
Wolfe, Tom, FROM BAUHAUS TO OUR HOUSE - 1981 1st/1st
$60.00
Edwards, VIRGINIA COUNTRY: INSIDE THE PRIVATE HISTORIC HOMES - 1998 1st ed.
$30.00
[Civil War] Wise, THE LONG ARM OF LEE - 1915 1st Ed. 2 vols.
$125.00
[American Indian] [Virginiana] Sams, THE CONQUEST OF VIRGINIA - 1916 1st ed.
$80.00
Dohme, Alvin. SHENANDOAH THE VALLEY STORY - 1972 1st ed. Signed
$40.00
ENGLISH MONARCHS - 7 vols. Complete
$100.00
Tolstoi, Leo, SEBASTOPOL, 1887 - 1st American ed.
$80.00
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